Nmap Development: Re: Time to lose gen1 OS detection?

[Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () univie ac at>]

On 29.10.2007, at 08:32, Luis Martin wrote:

> > Then gen2 system still only has 827 fingerprints compared to 1684 in
> > gen1.  But the new system has better fingerprints, and for more  
> > recent
> > and relevant system.
> That's a pretty good reason. Gen1 has much more signatures and more
> importantly, it has signatures for old systems. Those signatures  
> are not
> likely to be submitted again and usually finding very old boxes and
> being able to identify them is quite interesting.
I would argue that old versions of Nmap are still available for  
download. Nostalgic scans can still be performed with these. I don't  
think that looking for old boxes is the main use case of Nmap.

just my 2 cents.

Diman

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